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LVA Notes on John Smith's Virginia, Discovered and Discribed: John Smith’s Map of Virginia and Its Derivatives Research Notes Number 28 Virginia, Discovered and Discribed: John Smith’s Map of Virginia and Its Derivatives Background Information In 1607 English colonists landed at Jamestown Island with orders from the Virginia Company to mine for gold, search for survivors from the ill-fated Roanoke Colony, and explore the surrounding countryside for two months. Virginia Company investors hoped to find valuable minerals and metals and a short and quick passage to the Pacific Ocean, “the Other Sea.” Settlers never found gold or silver in large quantities, and only half-hearted attempts were made to discover the Roanoke Colony’s final establishment. Certain colonists did sail the Chesapeake Bay and the rivers flowing into it, but they never found the much sought-after water route to the Pacific Ocean. As a result of these explorations, a map of Virginia was produced that identified quite accurately the geographic, topographical, and maritime layout of the Chesapeake Bay, as well as the locations and names of the Native American groups and villages in Virginia’s Tidewater region.1 Captain John Smith and a small party of colonists spent several weeks exploring and mapping the Chesapeake Bay; its adjacent rivers; and several rivers, coves, and inlets in Virginia’s Tidewater region. He interacted with Powhatan and Susquehanna natives, at times under trying circumstances, and toured the Chesapeake and Nansemond regions. In November 1608, Smith sent several documents to England, including a “Mappe of the bayes and rivers.”2 Smith was unable to continue his ventures in Virginia after he suffered severe injuries from a gunpowder explosion. Forced to return to England for medical treatment, Smith left Virginia in September 1609, never to return. Three years later, Smith published his pamphlet, A Map of Virginia with a Description of the Country, The Commodities, People, Government and Religion. His map, Virginia / Discovered and Discribed / Graven by William Hole, was published to accompany the pamphlet.3 Later issues of the map include the date 1606 in the imprint. Smith’s Virginia was the most accurate and detailed map of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic coastline produced in Europe until 1673. It was the most widely available map of the region and one that mapmakers constantly relied on when drawing their own maps of Virginia. It was the basic Virginia, Discovered and Discribed: John Smith’s Map of Virginia and Its Derivatives source for virtually all printed maps of Virginia for more than sixty years and is considered to be one of the most significant maps of colonial America ever published. His map “revealed to European geographers of the day, colonial promoters, and prospective settlers a huge inland sea, and dendritic patterns of navigable tributaries. The water routes showed colonists and hopeful English settlers how to move through the Chesapeake region.”4 The original map and subsequent states of the map are oriented west and include a scale of leagues and half-leagues, with 15 leagues measuring 68 millimeters on the map (for specific cartographic terms please refer to the glossary at the end of this note). Latitude is given from 36 to 41 degrees north. The map is dominated by the Chesapeake Bay and four major rivers: the Powhatan, Pamunk, Tappahannock, and Patowomec (now the James, York, Rappahannock and Potomac, respectively). One of the map’s unique features is the use of Maltese crosses on each river to delineate the extent of the exploring party’s personal knowledge.5 The date noted on Smith’s map, 1606, is the year the London and Plymouth Companies were granted permission to colonize and explore Virginia. There are two illustrations on the map; one illustrates Powhatan’s lodge and the other shows a very large Susquehanna Indian brave based on John White’s drawing of “We roan or Great Lorde of Virginia,” as published by Theodore de Bry in his collection of voyages (1590).6 These illustrations are produced in nearly every copy of the map. Twelve known states of Virginia have been identified by alterations and additions to the original copperplate between 1612 and 1624, and it was printed in three contemporary publications: A Map of Virginia (1612); Samuel Purcha s’s Pilgrimes (1625), and in reprints and reissues thereafter; and in Smith’s The Generall Historie of Virginia (1624), and in reprints thereafter. The amazing accuracy of John Smith’s map of Virginia made it the prototype map of the Chesapeake Bay until Augustine Herrman’s Virginia and Maryland As it is Planted and Inhabited this present Year was published in 1673. The characteristics introduced by Smith—the shape of the Chesapeake Bay, Delmarva Peninsula, and the three peninsulas—were used by contemporary and future cartographers.7 Several derivatives exist for the various states of the John Smith map. The most complete bibliography of Smith’s map of Virginia was prepared by Coolie Verner. In addition to identifying the twelve states (or variations) of the map, Verner also identified nine derivatives; that is, maps of different size and decoration that retain the Smith map’s geography and orientation. Those derivatives were drawn, engraved, and published by various cartographers and publishers, beginning in 1618 and continuing into the 1700s. States of these maps also exist.8 The Library of Virginia’s Map Collection includes several of these fine examples of seventeenth - century cartographic works. In the Library’s Special Collections, original copies of Pilgrimes and Smith’s The Generall Historie of Virginia survive, as well as several nineteenth-century publications that include facsimiles. Listed below is the Virginia, Discovered and Discribed: John Smith’s Map of Virginia and Its Derivatives Library’s collection of states and derivatives of the John Smith map. Except as noted, they are available for patron research in the Map Reading Room. Researchers are required to complete a registration form and present identification and proof of current address in order to use the collection. A stack service slip must be completed in order for researchers to request maps. 4 Original Smith Maps State 8 Virginia. Discovered and Discribed by Captain John Smith. Graven by William Hole. 1606. Engraved by William Hole State 8, first appearing in the 1624 edition of Smith’s Historie 755/1608/1612/ca. 1624 Extensive changes were made on the original plates for this state. Three new names have been added (“Featherstones Ba ye,” “Bollers bush,” and “Sparkes Poynt”), the words “Page. 41/Smith” have been added in the lower right corner, and the scale cartouche has been re - engraved in spots, such as around the scale bar and the adjacent frame. For more information, please consult Tooley’s The Mapping of America, p. 155. State 9, housed in Special Collections Virginia. Discovered and Discribed by Captayn John Smith. In Purchas His Pilgrims, book 9, volume 4. London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1625. G159 P98 v. 1–5 This state of Virginia was inserted in the ninth book, volume four, of Purchas His Pilgrims published in 1625. Changes made to the original plate include the addition of three place names. The area around the scale bar has been re-cut and the initial “A” in Appamatuck has been extended. The brave’s face has been touched up, making the eyes and eyebrows more pronounced. For more information please consult Verner’s Smith’s Virginia and its Derivatives, p. 24. State 10, housed in Special Collections Virginia. Discovered and Discribed by Captayn John Smith. In John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles. London: Printed by I. D. and I. H. for Michael Sparkes, 1624. F229 S62 1624 State 10, Virginia, is best identified by alterations made to the Purchas page numbers added in State 7. The page numbers have been corrected to 1690 on the left and 1691 on the right instead of 1692 and 1693, respectively. There is a crease in the paper running to the left of the “a” in Chesapeake. For more information please consult Verner’s Smith’s Virginia and its Derivatives (1968), 25. 5 First American Reprint Virginia. Discovered and Described by Captayn John Smith 1606. From John Smith, The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations . in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America. Virginia, Discovered and Discribed: John Smith’s Map of Virginia and Its Derivatives Richmond: Franklin Press, 1819 755/1608/1612/1819 This is a facsimile of State 10 of Smith’s Virginia printed from a copperplate, circa 1819. William Hole’s name has been omitted from the imprint. This edition was produced by Francis Walker Gilmer and Rev. John Holt Rice, who were both members of the William Wirt Literary Circle in Richmond, Virginia. For additional bibliographic information, please consult Tooley’s The Mapping of America, p. 157. Virginia. Discovered and Described by Captayn John Smith. In John Smith, The True Travels, Adventures and Observations . in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America. 1st American reprint. Richmond: Franklin Press, 1819. Housed in Special Collections, F229 .S65 1819. The first American reprint of John Smith’s two-volume work, The True Travels, Adventures and Observations . in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America and the Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles was financed and published in Richmond by Rev. John Holt Rice, who established the Virginia Literary and Evangelical Magazine, forerunner of The Southern Literary Messenger. Francis Walker Gilmer, an aspiring young lawyer and the grandson of explorer and surveyor Dr. Thomas Walker, of Castle Hill in Albemarle County, initiated the project. In the dedication of the book to the “People of Virginia,” the publisher indicates his high regard for John Smith by referring to him as “one of the most accomplished Hero’s of the World.” This edition was printed by William W.
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